Thursday, December 31, 2009

Engagement

"Whitney, will you marry me?"


(post is a few days late, sorry!).

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

West Coast

"Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible." -Walter Cronkite
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

California Coffee



Outside the Guerilla Cafe in Berkeley. My latte came in a bowl - amazing.

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Monday, December 28, 2009

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Boise City, Okla.

For real:


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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Berkeley

"I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life." -Oscar Wilde
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Friday, December 25, 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Hot hot hot


Death Valley yesterday ... sunny and 70 degrees = just about perfect!
Happy Christmas Eve :)

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Rocky

"Do you have any petrified wood or rocks in the vehicle?" -the park ranger questions us upon entry to the Petrified Forest National Park.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Red Rocks Today

"My favorite thing is to go where I've never been." -Diane Arbus
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Monday, December 21, 2009

Overload

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." -Benjamin Disraeli.

Vegas?!
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Ruffled Feathers


Sign outside our motel room in Elkhart, Kan. Amazing.
Santa Fe tomorrow!

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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Go West


"Before he sets out, the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities, to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander, ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations." -George Santayana

...and so the Great Road Trip adventures begin :)
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Friday, December 18, 2009

Dreaming


"Together we will outsleep the night." -Insomniac by Galway Kinnell (as heard on the Writer's Almanac; full text here).

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

Lessons in Learning

"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned, and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly." -Thomas Huxley
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Staying Cool on Labor Day


The Heart of America marathon makes another appearance in Runner's World magazine (Jan '10 issue) ... although I have to say, about 15 seconds in the ice bath was more than enough for me.

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Hearing Voices

Handed to me in a trail-side parking lot after a run:

Must've been desperate for business...

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Monday, December 14, 2009

Final Days

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." -Albert Einstein

One week left in the semester...
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Home



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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Friday, December 11, 2009

Show Me the Money

"He missed his opportunity for a sugar momma." -a friend comments on his brother failing to date a doctoral student.
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Winter Weather

"It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway." -Teilhard de Chardin, French geologist. Well, it's definitely cold here in Missouri.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

After Life


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Monday, December 7, 2009

Job Talk

"A job's what you force yourself to pay attention to for money. With work, you don't have to force yourself. There are a lot of jobs in this country, and that's good because they keep people occupied. That's why they're called 'occupations.'" -a line from Blue Highways, by Columbian William Least Heat-Moon.
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Sunday, December 6, 2009

Grammar Joke

“I know a guy who had to have part of his colon taken out. He ended up with a semicolon.” -as told by a recent interviewee (after he told me about his wife's colonoscopy...ick).
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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Bells are Ringing

"May all your miles be merry." -on the Jingle Bell 5k T-shirt (happening today!). Ho ho ho.
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Friday, December 4, 2009

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Lots of Love xo

"I was poor as a church mouse... I told her, if we don't do a lot of expensive things, I could see you every day." -one of the men I interviewed for a story about Columbia couples who've been married 50+ years and who are still very much in love. Must've worked, they've been together 52 years :)
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